Dr Konqi still misbehaving - advice needed

Ben Cooksley bcooksley at kde.org
Wed Nov 26 02:03:10 GMT 2014


On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 4:08 PM, Ian Wadham <iandw.au at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,

Hi Ian,

>
> You may remember the recent fracas with Dr Konqi suddenly refusing to submit
> crash reports, because Bugzilla software (bugs.kde.org) had changed to a new
> version that no longer recognised cookies.
>
> The problem was fixed by me and the patch was released in KDE 4.14.2 and 4.14.3.
> It has also been forward-ported to KF5/Frameworks by Hrvoje Senjan.
>
> But now the problem is reappearing in the field…  See:
>    https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=337742#c30
>
> This should have been fixed, see:
>    https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120431/ and also
>    https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/120876/

I'd be interested in seeing how this is still broken considering the
code is supposed to be fixed.
Can someone try the latest Dr Konqi against bugstest.kde.org please?
(The codebase is practically identical to bugs.kde.org)

>
> Germano Massullo, who wrote Comment 30 re the bug, is able to reproduce
> a crash in Gwenview, which then fails to get added by Dr Konqi to an existing
> bug report.  The error message from Bugzilla is the same as it was before and
> Germano sends a screenshot of that, among Comments 30 to 38.
>
> The only thing I cannot get is the log/stderr output of Dr Konqi, which might
> tell me what the heck is going on.
>
> It occurs to me that Dr K is being started via kdeinit4 in Germano's case, rather
> than by forking and execing, and so its log/stderr output is going "somewhere
> else", not to Germano's stderr.
>
> So my immediate and most urgent question is how can I get Germano to
> recover that log output from Dr Konqi?  He is using Fedora 20, KDE 4.14.3.
>
> Cheers, Ian W.

Thanks,
Ben

>
> PS. I work on Apple OS X and my recollection of where Linux puts such
> output is hazy.  I have re-visited and re-tested my fixes, using Apple OS X,
> and they are still working fine.
>




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